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SGVaibhav:
Post your experiences of you screwing up the HARDWARE in your desktop PC.

I will post mines tom.

SGVaibhav:
I tampered with my pc, after opening the casing.

Many cases, i will discuss a good one, which happened recently, like 2 weeks ago.

I had installed an extra fan below the power supply long back [got it for 5 dhs/0.66394732 British pounds]
so suddenly it was making SO MUCH SOUND that day,
i opened my casing and just touched the fan and it got fixed.

Now i had a huge fasination with my cpu fan, i always wanted to remove it , clean it with vacuum cleanear and see what is inside [i cannot use vacuum directly, because of the presence of the fan] (actually i wanted to clean the heat-sink below the fan with vacuum).

So i tried to open the cpu fan,
i had tried that out many times, but it did not open, so i left it.

Same thing happened that day also,
just when i was going to give up, it came out [difficult to mention the technical stuff, so leave it]
so some screws came out, and i thought they broke and stuff
i was scared.
Later something else came out and then the WHOLE FAN came out.
omggggg!!!!
the fan came out, but i found out that the fan was attached to the heatsink and i cannot just remove the fan to clean the heat-sink.

no use of all that hard work.

now while putting it back, i removed it in such a bad way, that putting back was a very big problem (now that cannot be typed)
so like after 45 mins, i managed to put the screw back, and i found out that two screws were not fitting properly (damaged :()

then i left that and started my pc.
later that day, while restarting my pc, i just thought to peek into my bios

i went into the cpu health settings and fount out
OMGGGG   :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o :o

cpu temperature shooting above 70 deg celcius, after few seconds, it reached 85 deg celcius :( :( :( :( :(.

now i knew happened because i did something.

awwwww

later, i opened my casing and found out, that if i apply little downforce on the fan, it INSTANTLY cooled to 45 deg celcius.

Then someone told me, that this thing has to be fitted very tightly.

Then i was trying that for the next 2 hours.
And somehow, 2 screws becoming tight, but it happened somehow later.

poof.

i know its little long, but pc freaks like me find it interesting.

zara:
hahahahaaaaa!!
ROFL!
boy ur soo curios...pity tht poor thing...u made hell outta it!

SGVaibhav:
Once, my pc was getting stuck at startup
i could not use the bios as well.

later someone told me to clear the bios, by short circuiting the two pins to clear CMOS values.

i did that, but i felt that it had not been cleared.
so it was written in my motherboard manual, that it bios can also be reset ted, by removing the battery from the motherboard.
i tried to remove the battery, and it poped out and got stuck in the motherboard badly.

position showed in diagram

it could not be removed as there was no place to remove it.
the cpu fan was there, so there was no place to remove it.

lol the cpu fan came in again.
at that time, i did not knew how to remove the cpu fan (this incident happened before the cpu fan incident)

lol then it took me like 30 mins to remove the batter.

later, after so much analyzing, i found out, that either the motherboard, or the RAM is screwed up.

i took it for warranty and they found the RAM was damaged.

astarmathsandphysics:
It is just plain awful to install windows from a torrented version.

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